“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

22 ROAD TRANSPORT EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA,ARRESTED IN LAGOS. (PHOTO).



22 RETEANS NAB IN   LAGOS 

At least, 22 members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, are currently being held by the police in Lagos over clashes by the union members on Tuesday this week.
A source disclosed that the state commissioner of police, Mr Sylvester Abiodun Alabi deployed crack teams drawn from Task Force, anti riot police and the CP Crack Squad to Iyana Iba where members of RTEAN had engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight over issue yet to be disclosed by security agents.
The source said those arrested have been ordered transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, on Musuliu Smith street, Yaba.
Last Tuesday clashes left commercial activities in the area paralysed for several hours.
Meanwhile, operatives from various units of the police are on surveillance in and around the area.
Attempt to reach out to the president of RTEAN, Alhaji Abubakar Musa to react on the clashes and the suspension placed on the union by the Lagos government were unsuccessful, as calls made to his phone were unanswered.


 

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